Bulgaria’s Radev Wins Presidential Election, Exit Poll Shows

Bulgarian opposition Socialist candidate Rumen Radev won Bulgaria’s presidential election, an exit poll showed, defeating an ally of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who has pledged to step down and trigger early elections if she lost.

Radev, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force War College, describes himself “as a U.S.-trained pilot flying Soviet planes, and a Bulgarian general.” He has rejected criticism that he would swing Bulgaria’s foreign policy toward Russia. The Black Sea state’s stance was a leading campaign issue as the country tries to balance its foreign policy between its Cold War patron, with which it shares religious, historical and other cultural ties, and its western allies in NATO and the European Union …. http://www.bloomberg.com